Friday, May 6, 2011

WE LOVE THIS ONE. Hats seem to have made a roaring comeback with everyone from royals to rock stars. So, it only makes sense that crooks are donning headgear too. America, meet the 'Mad Hatter Gang.' Who? The gang are a group of older women--at least one is in her 70s-- who wear a wild variety of hats as a disguise as steal cash and credit cards from distracted shoppers in the Detroit area.
Cops say the gang have been at it for more than a year and have stolen a whopping $500,000.
Lt. Luke Riley said that the kindly appearance of the elderly crooks is helping them pull off the caper. Shoppers, banks and retailers tend not

MEET RILEY Choate. Monster. Cops in Gary, Indiana discovered the badly decomposed body of 13-year-old boy behind an area trailer park. The body belonged to Christian Choate who went missing two years ago and an autopsy revealed the boy had blunt force trauma, internal bleeding and a skull fracture. Now, they have charged Riley Choate, 39, with a number of offences, although we hasten to add not murder--yet.
Sheriff John Buncich said: "He thus far confessed to removing the body from one trailer, taking it across

PROSECUTORS in North Carolina have dropped a murder charge in a bizarre cased that mixed plastic surgery, teen rivalry and a 30-year grudge. The charges were dropped against nurse Sally Jordan Hill, a former nurse anesthetist who had been accused of killing her former high school love rival Sandra Baker Joyner in 2001 by juicing her up with deadly drugs while she was recovering from a mini-facelift.
District Attorney Andrew Murraysaid he was troubled by Hill’s actions but

SOMETIMES it takes good old fashioned detective work, sometimes it's the latest DNA technology, or sometimes the thieves accidentally ring you from their pocket and tell you all about their crimes.
That's exactly what happened in upstate New York this week when when the 911 dispatcher picked up the phone and heard three crooks plotting their next crime.
Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh says police who were already looking for a suspicious person got the unlikely assist, when one of the plotters "pocket dialed" his cellphone's emergency number while driving near the scene of an earlier heist.

REMEMBER the story we brought you about the depressed woman who was having her paralyzed pet kangaroo taken away from her - Well good news.
Christie Carr can now keep Irwin the disabled red kangaroo within the city limits of Broken Arrow, OK after a council meeting voted unanimously that she could keep him.
They had been worried that the Aussie native might grow up to 7 feet tall, weigh more than 200 pounds and bound 25 feet in a single leap.
But veterinarians say Irwin will probably not grow larger than 50 pounds because of his injury.
Irwin fractured his neck and suffered brain damage when he ran into a fence and he can only hop with assistance, and cannot stand or walk on his own.

A TECHIE love rat has been convicted of murdering his wife and has been sentenced to life in prison. Brad Cooper--originally from Calgary, Canada--strangled his wife inside their suburban Raleigh, North Carolina home in July 2008. He was found guilty of first-degree murder in the high-profile trial that was rife with sex, infidelity and money.
Judge Paul Gessner said: "Your verdict in this case speaks the everlasting truth. This case is a horrible, sad tragedy . . . I suspect this matter will weigh heavily upon you in the days to come."
Nancy Cooper--the mother of his two children--was

TWO YEARS after an Illinois family was butchered, justice has been delivered. Chris Coleman was found guilty of murdering his wife Sheri and little boys Garett and Gavin. Now, the prosecution says they are planning to seek the death penalty and send the cold-blooded bald-headed monster to oblivion.
"If there was ever a case the death penalty, it would be for a father who killed his wife and two young sons," said prosecutor Ed Parkinson.
The guilty verdict came on the second anniversary of the horrific slayings. A minister's son and former

LOWEST of the low William Melchert-Dinkel who entered into false suicide pacts and persuaded people he met online to kill themselves has been given a year behind bars by a Minnesota judge.
The twisted former nurse trawled online chats posing as a suicidal female and then promised at least 10 people that they would die together. As a result he believed at least five people killed themselves after he gave the detailed instructions on how to do it.

HUGE crowds are expected to show up for the high profile murder trial of party lovin' mom Casey Anthony, cops say.
Orange County Sheriff's said they're preparing for a large number of people to turn and vent their feelings towards the 22-year-old who is accused of killing her toddler daughter Caylee, 2.
The child’s body was found in a wooded area near the Anthony family home in Dec 2008, but Casey has always denied killing her child.
Despite her claims of innocence, a number of people turned up to her

INFAMOUS serial killer, the Original Night Stalker who murdered at least 10 people and sexually assaulted more than 50 has been linked to at least two more deaths using modern DNA technology.
Considered to be one the worst and most prolific unapprehended serial offenders in America the notorious murderer terrorized South California in the late 1970s with a string of shocking deaths.
Typically he would target middle class homes and stealthily sneaking in late at night.
Then he would wake his victims at gunpoint, tie them up killing the men with a bullet to the brain and the battering their corpses.
The women weren't so lucky, often subjected to horrific sexual